Xenomortis, can you define some kind of local function do_things :: BaseClass -> Object with overloads for the specific classes? (The program will still call the most specific overload, regardless of whether the object was bound to a variable of a superclass type in between, right?) Pretty sure Jav...

Poachers break into French zoo, kill a rhino, and steal its horn Police, who were investigating the crime, said the rhino had been shot three times in the head and one of its horns had been sawn off, probably with a chainsaw. . . . The poachers broke through a gate at the wildlife park during the n...

From conservation of angular momentum, I predict that your rate of counterspinning will be by far the most notable and, edicts against permanent personal injuries aside, you would more obviously be centripetally flattened out (or worse!) beyond the frictionless surface limit. So maybe that's when y...

Stand to top of the block. Spin in place, causing the block to spin in the opposite direction, conserving angular momentum. Keep spinning faster and faster, until the gold block flattens and expands outwards far enough to reach the edge of the circle. This assumes the rope won't be twisted up in the...

Meteoric wrote:Priority lists are usually arrived at by taking a few initial guesses, and simming a lot of permutations. I suppose you could try to automatically generate all possible permutations, but this sounds inefficient.

A few days ago, I learned that the peace sign is a combo of the flag semaphore signs for N and D, standing for "nuclear disarmament." http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/02/delicate-sketches-of-the-original-peace-symbol-to-be-exhibited-in-london/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_symbols...

Finally got around to playing this, so I could watch (most of) the Pacifist speedrun at AGDQ this year ( Twitch VOD , run starts at 38:43:25). I was able to watch the run until it caught up to where I was at about a hour in (Neutral ending, befriending Undyne). Just beat the Pacifist ending last nig...

flicky1991 wrote:When you have a thought, do you tend to think it in words and sentences?: YesWhen reading a story, do you automatically picture the locations and characters in your mind's eye?: YesDo you typically tend to notice errors in spelling, whether your own or other people's?: Yes

Some questions:Do the lines connecting dots have to be straight, or are they free-form?How thick are the lines?Do they have to go between the centers of the dots, (i.e. perpendicular to the edge of the dot), or can they come out at any angle?

Robuts: @Tyndmyr R2 and C3P0 are dicks, having known where the secret rebel base on Yavin was all along. What makes them dicks for knowing that? Before they were stranded on Tatooine, the next stop for the Tantive IV after picking up Kenobi was Alderaan, not the base on Yavin. Before Scarif, it'...

It's a thumbnailed version of an image hosted on photobucket. EVERYTHING wants Javascript these days, probably to track how many times each image gets viewed and from what countries. Here: ScreenShot00191 Big skull.jpg THAT. I last saw that being herded across the dunes of Tatooine by sand-people. ...

I believe KrytenKoro's argument is this: 1. Gamergate had a campaign to get advertisers to stop doing business with Gawker. By doing this, they are implicitly declaring that this is a valid tactic. 2. Kellogg's recently stopped doing business with Breitbart. In response, Breitbart called this "...

Horribly written article. Absolutely no discussion about cloning or the movie 'Jurassic Park'? Those should be the bulk of the headline, and at the lead-in to the article should be something like "'Jurassic Park' fossil found: Dinosaur material found in amber could lead the way to cloning of d...

Liberal arts is not the humanities. That stereotype is perpetuated by elitist conservatives who want to equate liberals with what they perceive to be useless degrees. Physics is a liberal art. Mathematics is a liberal art. Pretty much any science, hard or soft, as well as the humanities are liberal...

I will finish by a claim you could check : If you can solve in one or 2 computing hours or in a minute this diophantine equation : x^2+y=A where A is known and very large (more than 500 digits) and the couple (x,y) is not known then factorizing any number (large or not) will be a childish game. Onl...

Maybe it'd be easier not to use rocks. Something with an even density would allow greater control of machine loading, electricity generation and so on. Something more fluid than large rocks would allow control of flow better, too, so sand may be a better choice. Then you still need a way to get san...

Apple files patent for a paper bag. FIELD [0002] The described embodiments relate generally to a bag. More particularly, the present embodiments relate to a retail shopping bag made substantially of post-consumer content. BACKGROUND [0003] Bags are often used for containing items. For example, reta...